Improvement in carbureting apparatus



J. WEART. Garbureting Apparatus.

No. 220,685. Patented Oct. 14 1879.

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N. PETERS. PHOTO-UTHOGRAPHER, WASHINGTON. D c

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JACOB WEART, OF JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY.

IMPROVEMENT IN C'ARBURETING APPARATUS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 220,685, dated October14, 1879 application filed May 14, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JACOB WEART, of J ersey City, in the county ofHudson and State New Jersey, have invented a new and ImprovedOarbureting Apparatus, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an air forcin g and carbureting apparatus forilluminating railway-cars, the same being constructed and arranged andoperating as hereinafter described, and as shown in accompanyingdrawings, in which I have shown by a sectional side view the apparatusas applied in connection with a locomotive and car.

A is the boiler of the locomotive. D is a donkey or other small enginefitted on the 10- comotive and taking steam from boiler A. E is afan-blower, of usual character, also fitted on the locomotive and drivenby the engine D. The inlet-openings e of the blower are covered byfine-wire screens,as shown in Fig. 2, to exclude dust that might bedrawn in and forced into the pipes and carbureter.

From the blower E a pipe, f, preferably of metal, passes beneath thelocomotive and ten der to a coil, H, that is located on the car 0, andfrom the coil to the carbureter 70, also on the car (3. The connectionof the pipes between the locomotive and cars is made by flexible hoseand couplingdevices G, and between the coil H and -carbureter there is arising pipe, 0, that is fitted with a safety-valve for permitting escapeof air when the pressure becomes too great.

The carbureterK is to be of any usual or desired character, and will befitted with pipes for conveying the enriched air to the burners in theusual manner. Contiguous to the aircoil H there is fitted a steam-coil,M, that is connected by pipe L with boiler A, so as to take steamtherefrom, and coil M serves to heat the air passing through the coil H,so

that the air will be more or less heated before it enters thecarbureter. This heater is especially useful in cold weather, to insurethe vaporization of the hydrocarbon.

By this construction the required pressure can be readily maintained inthe carburetor without the use of weights or other pressure devicesapplied in the cars in connection with each carbnreter.

A blower connected by pipes with the carbureter, and adapted foroperation by hand, will be placed on the car, so that the carbureter maybe kept in operation when the locomotive is detached.

I am aware that air has been forced through a carbureting-vessel bymeans of a fan or blower, and that a steam-pipe has been conductedthrough a section of the air-cond uctin g pipe of a carbureter for thepurpose of heating the air on its way to the carbureter; but myinvention does not pertain to such combination or operation of parts.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent The combination, with the locomotive-boiler A and itsattached donkey-engine and the car 0 and carburetor K, placed on the carand suitably connected with the burners thereof, of the blower E, theair-conducting pipe f, leading from the latter to the carbureter, andthe steam-pipe L, leading from the boiler, and having a coil, N, locatedon the car, beneath or contiguous to a coil, H, of the air-pipe, and theflexible hose-section and detachable couplings gof said pipes f L,-allas shown and described, and operating as and for the purpose specified.

JACOB WEART. Witnesses:

O. SEDGWIOK, GEO. D. WALKER.

